It didn't come together as well as some of the "Commando Trad" ones out of Quebec, but the organisers and participants learned a lot from it in terms of how to do it better next time (if there is a next time).

We did "Davy Davy Nick Nack" and "The Oyster Girl"...largely in the rain.

I tried to join one a couple of years ago, and it was a bomb. There had been an arson-caused fire in the largest shopping mall in the Sacramento area. To celebrate the reopening of the mall, a choral music group organized a "flash mob" performance of the "Hallelujah" chorus at the mall. The event was widely publicized, and traffic was backed up for miles around the mall. So many people showed up that the floor of the mall began to bow, so the performance was moved outside the mall. It was all over by the time I got there.

It lacked the spontaneity of a true "flash mob" performance, and that's why it failed.

Before they were called flash mobs, at a Morris ale in St. Louis, a bunch of Morris dancers came to a shopping mall . The organizers talked to the mall management ahead of time for permission to do a demonstration. No one from the week day staff. Othersd to tell the weekend staff that this had been done. So when the dancers started, mall security showed up. It didn't work very well.

Haven't done any - have had to perform AROUND a "flash mob" type scenario - the local HS decided that at 1 pm during our Dickon's Festival that they would freeze in place for 3 minutes. We were instructed to "not see" what was happening.

though it was difficult. The hardest part was not reacting as someone used one of the students as a table for their packages while they zipped up their coat, donned their hat and gloves.